Trunk attachment



. (No Model.)

W R SUTLEY TRUNKv ATTACHMENT.

No. 447,625. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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m VENTOH w- BY NITED STATES \VI LLIAM R. SUTLEY, OF MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA.

TRUNK ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,625, dated March 3, 1891.

7 Application filed July 8, 1890. Serial No. 358,044. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM R. SUTLEY, of Mitchell, in the county of Davison and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Trunks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and convenient attachment for a trunk or box which will facilitate the transfer of such a heavy package from one locality to another.

To this end my invention consists in the provision of an adjustable pair of handle-bars for the trunk or box; and it further consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a portion of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both of the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a trunk having the improvement in place and adjusted as it appears when not in service, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a trunk with the attachment extended for use.

A represents a trunk whereon the attachment is placed, which consists of a preferably integral U-shaped metallic bar B, that is of such a proportionate length to the dimensions of the trunk that the center member a between the corners a b will extend across the end of the trunk, and the two parallel limbs c d will loosely embrace the side walls of the trunk, as shown in Fig. 1, the limb cl being shown in dottedlines. The member a is offset in the middle to form a handle a Near the corners a Z), upon the opposite sides of the trunk, keeper-loops e are secured at a proper point, vertically considered, to receive the limbs c d and permit them to slide longitudinally on the trunk. At such a point from the lower edges of the trunk A as will retain the limbs e (Z parallel to said edges the elongated keeper-plates g are secured, these plates being bent from sheet metal or cast into form of such dimensions that the ends of the limbs c d will enter freely the apertures provided by these keeper-plates when they are attached to the side walls of the trunk-body near the end which is opposite to that whereon the keeper-loops e are aflixed. The end portions of the limbs c d are bent into wave form, so

as to produce slight projecting corrugations h upon the outer faces of the limbs, these wavelike protuberances affording a spring-lock contact for the ends of the limbs c d with the keeper-plates g that will produce sufficient frictional resistance to normally retain the limb ends in engagement with the keeperplates until the limbs of the handle-bar B are purposely withdrawn. There are two keeperloops 71 provided which are similar in form to that of the loops 6. The keeper-loopsz' are secured near the longitudinal center of the trunk-body A, so as to loosely embrace the limbs 0 cl of the handle-bar. Upon the limbs c d projections m are formed on their upper edges, which projections afford locking-shoulders for engagement with the upper edges of the keeper-loops 6; when the handle-bar B is drawn outwardly into position for use, as represented in Fig. 2, the vertical width of the apertures formed by the keeper-loops a being slightly in excess of the combined breadth of the ears m and limbs c d whereon they are formed, so that the reciprocation of the handle-bar is permitted.

The usual handles it may be provided for the trunk A, and rollers o be secured to revolve on pintles attached to the trunk-body near the four lower corners of the same, or any preferred form of trunk-caster may be substituted which will afford a rolling support to the trunk.

When the device is to be employed for the movement of a trunk or other wheeled chest or box whereon it is placed, the handle-bar B is drawn outwardly until the projeetin g wave- Y shaped stops himpinge on the keeper-loops-t'.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with a trunk or like receptacle having four casters, one on each lower corner of the trunk, of ahandle-bar provided with parallel limbs which loosely embrace the sides of the trunk, and spring-stops on the ends of these limbs, keeper-plates that the spring-stops may engage, and keeper-loops [O that retain the handle-bar limbs in sliding adjustment with the trunk-body, substantially as set forth.

\VILLIAM R. SUTLEY.

\Vitnesses:

WM. LAYTON, .T. F. KDIBALL. 

